Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I happened to stumble upon the new Windows Live Writer SDK post and the example of announcing the post on Twitter and I realised I finally had a simple and effective way of publishing my blog posts to Community Credit. I’d previously looked at the Community Server plug-in ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
The Silverlight SDK blog has an overview of what new features to expect from the Silverlight 2 beta 2 release coming this week. Highlights for me include: DataGrid improvements: Autosize, Reorder, Sort, Performance increase, and ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Some cool news coming out of Tech-Ed North America 2008 today from Bill Gates himself. Firstly Silverlight 2 beta 2 will be available this week including a commercial Go Live license and updated developer tools such as Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview and Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Yes you heard it here first! Brad Abrams, the man, the legend, is coming to South Africa and is taking time out of his busy schedule for SA Developer .NET events in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Before you ask how I can speak so highly of the man, take ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Microsoft is hosting a Saturday morning event for speakers in the Gauteng region to come and show what they are passionate about. Currently there are 5 out of 10 speaker slots filled, so why not put your name down and present something you're passionate about for a mere 20 minute ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
One of the guys on the official Silverlight community forums posted an interesting question, namely how does one change the currently visible UserControl in a Silverlight 2.0 application. To put things in context the new Silverlight 2.0 project template creates two classes for you: a System.Windows.Application derived class named App ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Check out this post which details all the download links for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. Yay! Naturally this includes an update runtime, an SDK, the source code to the new controls, documentation, some tools for Visual Studio 2008 and the Expression Blend 2.1 March Preview. [tags]Silverlight[/tags]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Finally the marriage between Xbox LIVE and XNA has been announced. Major Nelson live blogged it from GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco on his twitter feed and promptly posted about it. It was just announced at GDC that we are introducing a new, open distribution service ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
How many times have you tried to design an efficient database table design in SQL Server only to stumped with the problem of storing pure date values. Yes the currently released versions of SQL Server (up to 2005) don't support a pure date only data type. Note that SQL Server ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Yeah its official, Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 was officially released today. You can read Somasegar's announcement post over here. If you have been chomping on the bit waiting for the release then head on over and download 90-day trial editions, the Express editions and the full ...
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